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by akama 4735 days ago
Just so you know, Obama believes that Guantanamo Bay should be closed. The reason it is not closed is because he is unable to get the funding from congress to close it.
2 comments

One needs money to stop doing something?

I suspect the reasons for not closing Gitmo are less clean and clear than "they won't let me boo-hoo"

Start with a thousand wrongful arrest and torture suits filed against everyone at all positions of government for ten years, and work down.

He's just unwilling to do anything about it.